About January 22
January 22, 2025 is the 22nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 7 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 22
- 1521 –Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms.
- 1689 –The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II, the last Roman Catholic king of England, had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.
- 1771 –Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to the United Kingdom.
- 1849 –Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
- 1890 –The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1901 –Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- 1905 –Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- 1909 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 1917 –World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
- 1927 –First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- 1946 –Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1969 –A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
- 1970 –The Boeing 747, the world’s first “jumbo jet”, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
- 1973 –The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- 1987 –Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
- 1990 –Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
- 1995 –Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
- 1999 –Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- 2002 –Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2006 –Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country’s first indigenous president.
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